I've been like MAJOR soaking up haiku for the last three months. Pip and I are writing a storytelling theatre module called 'Kwaidan' ( http://mythologic.info/kwaidan/index.html )for Phenomenon (Canberra, June). Kwaidan is essentially a haunted-castle-in-a-snowstorm ghost story, but I decided early on to structure the tale and the character sheets using haiku & realted forms: I wanted the narrative to have a very haibun character. Luckily, I work next door to one of the largest libraries in the southern hemisphere...
Here are some of the key haiku from the module...
Walking in the night Snow is falling A farewell to form.
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Date: 2008-04-19 10:51 pm (UTC)Here are some of the key haiku from the module...
Walking in the night
Snow is falling
A farewell to form.
Sleet falling:
Fathomless, infinite
Loneliness.
Jōsō
There is neither heaven nor earth,
only snow
Falling incessantly.
Hashin
Fields and mountains -
The snow has taken them all,
Nothing remains.
Jōsō
such a storm!
on the roof are falling
all the stars
In the wintry grove
Echoes
of long, long ago.
Issa
I'm playtesting next weekend. Deadline panic!
Cheers
John